Nitrate reductase activity and uptake of nitrate and oxygen as affected by nitrate supply to detached maize organs

Biologia Plantarum

Volumn 39, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 583-589

  Shankar, N ^a   Srivastava, H S ^a  

^a M J P ROHILKHAND UNIVERSITY   (India)

Author keywords

Dissimilatory NR; Substrate induction; Zea mays

Indexed keywords

ZEA MAYS;

EID: 0031545304     PISSN: 00063134     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1000982832369     Document Type: Article

References (21)

1. Dailey, F.A. Warner, R.L., Somers, D.A. Klein, A.: Characteristics of nitrate reductase in barley mutant deficient in NADH nitrate reductase. - Plant Physiol. 69: 1200-1204, 1982.
2. De Marco, A.J.C., Fischer-Schliebs, E., Veranine, Z., Lüttge, U.: Evidence for two different nitrate reducing activities at the plasma membrane in roots of Zea mays L. - Planta 194: 557-569, 1994.
3. Deng, M.D., Moureuax, T., Caboche, M.: Tungstate, a molybdate analog inactivating nitrate reductase deregulates the expression of the nitrate reductase structural gene. - Plant Physiol. 91: 314-319, 1991.
4. Ferrario, S., Valadier, M-H., Morot-Gaudry, J-F., Foyer, C.H.: Effect of constitutive expression of nitrate reductase in transgenic Nicotiana plumbaginifolia in response to varying nitrogen supply. - Planta 196: 288-294, 1995.
5. Friemann, A., Brinkmann, K., Hachtel, W.: Sequence of a cDNA encoding the bispecific NAD(P)H:nitrate reductase from the tree Betula pendula and the identification of conserved protein regions. - Mol. gen. Genet. 227: 97-105, 1991.
6. Garcia-Novo, F., Crawford, R.M.M.: Soil aeration, nitrate reduction and flooding tolerance in higher plants. - New Phytol. 72: 1031-1039, 1973.
7. Gray, V.M. Cresswell, C.R.: Nitrate utilization by excised Zea mays L. roots under anaerobic conditions. - Plant Sci. Lett. 33: 31-38, 1984.
8. Lee, R.B., Purves, J.V., Ratcliff, R.G., Saker, R.: Nitrogen assimilation and the control of ammonium and nitrate absorption by maize roots. - J. exp. Bot. 43: 1385-1396, 1992.
9. Li, X.-J., Oaks, A.: Induction and turnover of nitrate reductase in Zea mays. Influence of nitrate. - Plant Physiol. 102: 1251-1257, 1993.
10. Lowry, O.H., Rosebrough, N.J., Fair, A.L., Randall, R.J.: Protein measurement with the Folin phenol reagent. - J. biol. Chem. 193: 265-275, 1951.
11. Mertens, J., Redinbaugh, M.G., Campbell, W.H.: Are G-proteins involved with nitrate signal transduction in plants. - Plant Physiol. 108 (Suppl.): s488, 1995.
12. Miyagi, N., Satoh, S., Fuji, T.: A nitrate inducible plasma membrane protein of a marine alga Heterosigma akashiro. - Plant Cell Physiol. 33: 971-976, 1992.
13. Palmer, C.E.: Abscisic acid stimulation of nitrate reductase activity in potato tuber slices. Effect of inhibition of protein and nucleic acid synthesis. - Plant Cell Physiol. 23: 301-308, 1982.
14. Sengar, R.S., Srivastava, H.S.: Effect of age on NADH glutamate dehydrogenase activity and ammonium assimilation in maize seedlings. - Indian J. Plant Physiol. 33: 40-45, 1990.
15. Srivastava, H.S.: Multiple functions and forms of nitrate reductase in higher plants. - Phytochemistry 31: 2941-2947, 1992.
16. Srivastava, H.S., Ormrod, D.P.: Effects of nitrogen dioxide and nitrate nutrition on growth and nitrate assimilation in bean leaves. - Plant Physiol. 76: 418-423, 1984.
17. Stewart, G.R., Orebamjo, J.O. : Some unusual characteristics of nitrate reductase in Erythrina senegalensis. - New Phytol. 83: 311-319, 1979.
18. Streit, L., Martin, B.A., Harper, J.E.: A method for the separation and partial purification of the three forms of nitrate reductase present in wild type soybean leaves. - Plant Physiol. 84: 654-657, 1987.
19. Streit, L., Nelson, R.S., Harper, J.E.: Nitrate reductase from wild type and nrt mutant soybean (Glycine max (L.) Merr.) leaves. I. Purification, kinetics and physical properties. - Plant Physiol. 78: 80-84, 1985.
20. Sueyoshi, K., Kleinhofs, A., Warner, R.L.: Expression of NADH specific and NAD(P)H bispecific nitrate reductase genes in response to nitrate in barley. - Plant Physiol. 107: 1303-1311, 1995.
21. Warner, R.L., Narayanan, K.R., Kleinhofs, A.: Inheritance and expression of NAD(P)H nitrate reductase in barley. - Theor. appl. Genet. 74: 714 717, 1987.